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There were 3,499 acres in peas against 1,853 bushels the previous year, and 
the average yield per acre was 10 bushels 23 pounds. Fallowed land exhibited 
a falling-off of 10,280 acres. In orchards and gardens there has been an 
increase of 652 acres, there being now 2,563 of the former and 3,912 of the 
latter. Vineyards show a decline of 152 acres. . The total acreage in vines is 
6,209, with 5,869,406 vines in bearing, and 1,022,740 vines yet unproductive. 
The quantity of wine made is returned as 863,584 gallons, or 128,601 gallons 
more than at the previous vintage. The production of the past three vintages 
has averaged 816,000 gallons, or nearly 5 gallons per head) of the population. 
The shipment of wine amounted to 8,924 gallons, valued at £1,90!, against 
20,574 gallons, with»£50,545, in 1862. The produce of an acre of vines is 
returned as 140 gallons. A large increase in the number of sheep is reported, 
over half a million, and the diminution in the number of horned cattle, so rapid 
of late years, has reached its limit, being for the past year merely nominal. 
Since 1863 the number of cattle has decreased one-half, whereas for the past 
five years the increase in the flocks has been 30 per cent. More attention is 
now being paid to dairy products for the supply of the home market and for 
exportation. 
AMERICAN CORN IN PRUSSIA. 
Experiments made with samples of corn sent out from this Department, 
through Q. H. Brockman, United States consul at Koenigsberg, Prussia, for 
trial in that country, have been attended with but limited success. 
The varieties sent were Darling’s Early sugar corn, Stowell’s Evergreen sugar 
corn, large sugar corn, Adams’s Extra Early corn, improved seed corn, and King 
Philip. At theagricultural academy in Popellau, near Rybrick, Upper Silesia, the 
King Philip alone ripened, but this variety turned out of superior quality and its 
cultivation will be continued. The Central Association of West Prussian agricul- 
turists, at Dantzic, reports that though the season was unfavorable, the summer 
wet and cold, the 40-days corn generally, and the King Philip corn in the 
greatest part, reached maturity, whilst white corn, white Canadian, and even 
the red and the versicolor Silesian corn did not ripen. The large sugar corn, 
Stowell’s Evergreen, Darling’s Early, and Adams’s Extra Early, also failed to 
mature. Mr. Stetter, a large landholder in Great Mischen, near Koenigsberg, 
reports that ears formed on the stalks, but the grains contained no starch and 
were milky. At the experimental farm of the Royal Academy of Agriculture 
in Waldau, none of the varieties ripened fully before the heavy frosts, but were 
soft and soon moulded, though the ripest grains were removed from the ears and 
dried in a moderately warmed room, to be used for seed another season. 
HAMPSHIRE DOWN SHEEP. 
The following points have been gleaned from a private note to the Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture by Robert Morrell, of Manhasset, Long island, New York. 
His imported ram Chancellor is pictured in the report of 1867. Chancellor was 
dropped iu Quebec, March 23, 1865, out of an ewe imported by John Ashworth, 
esq., in 1864, from the flock of Edward Hetherington, of Surrey, England, and 
got by ram “ Pride of England,” purchased by John Hetherington, in Arling- 
ford, Hampshire, England. The ewes will clip 54 pounds washed wool, and 
rams 64, the quality of wool about the same as Southdown, only longer. 
